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Adopting Special Needs Cats
Views: 3,345 - Comments: 3If you have read my previous blogs then you are aware of my addiction to caregiving and that I tried to stop rescuing. I did my best to stop but the special needs cats always pull so hard on my heartstrings that I cannot say no. I...
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Summer Feline Toxins
Views: 6,469 - Comments: 2With the arrival of summer and that warm weather, for which us Pacific Northwesterners are starved, comes an increase in the cases of specific cat toxins we see. The flowers are blooming and the bugs are out in full force! These f...
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Porcupine Quill Removal
Views: 8,313 - Comments: 5Katherine Earl, DVM, discusses the removal of porcupine quills, treatment and pain control.
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Clipper Care
Views: 11,433 - Comments: 0Think about the last procedure you used clippers for.. Was it shaving a wound? Cutting out matted hair and fecal matter? Or just prepping to place a catheter? Whatever is was, it's important to remember that we need to take care o...
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What to Expect on the Fourth of July
Views: 2,374 - Comments: 0Like most clinics, Fourth of July is DoveLewis’ busiest holiday. Patient numbers rise in the summer as more pets are outdoors with their owners enjoying the weather, which means more chances for pets and owners to make poor decisi...
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Tiny Talk - Toxicities the First 10 Minutes
Views: 5,688 - Comments: 0Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), discusses strategies and treatments for toxin ingestion.
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Diagnosis and Management of Splenic Diseases
Views: 4,384 - Comments: 1Ashley Magee, DVM, DACVS, discusses the spleen and emergency management of patients with splenic diseases. Diagnosis and patient stabilization are covered with a majority of the talk focused on surgical technique for splenectomy a...
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Adapting to the Technician Shortage
Views: 6,645 - Comments: 16This year I helped make a decision that caused a considerable amount of strife among the DoveLewis technician staff and even anger and disappointment for a few of my most senior technicians. No one likes to deal with conflic...
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Ruptured Urethra Catheterization Using Fluoroscopy
Views: 3,570 - Comments: 2Ashley Magee, DVM, DACVS, uses a fluoroscope to assist in the placement of a urinary catheter in a dog with a ruptured urethra and fractured pelvis from vehicular trauma. Patient follow up with removal of the urinary catheter is i...
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Von Willebrand Disease
Views: 7,152 - Comments: 2Ladan Mohammad-Zadeh, DVM, DACVECC, gives a quick overview of Von Willebrand disease and discusses the treatment strategy for a dog previously diagnosed with the disease that presented to the hospital needing an exploratory l...
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Tick Paralysis
Views: 6,415 - Comments: 1Adam Stone, VMD, discusses a case of tick paralysis and the amazing recovery made once the tick was removed from the patient.
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Cleaning Checklists
Views: 10,301 - Comments: 2DoveLewis Technician Assistant, Leilani Baker, gives an overview of the cleaning checklists and why this system is important in any hospital. A sample cleaning checklist is available for download.
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Dog Bite Prevention Q & A
Views: 17,681 - Comments: 2DoveLewis Safety Manager Coby Richter answers some common questions about dog bite prevention. She discusses important precautions that all of our staff members take and how our policy regarding muzzling was developed....
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Wound Management of a Complex Dog Bite
Views: 9,786 - Comments: 3A 6 year old Female spayed Maine Coon cat was mauled by a dog sustaining severe injuries to her left forefoot including loss of the second digit. The wounds were debrided and partially closed by her primary care veterinarian ten d...
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Emergency Preparedness For Your Clinic
Views: 4,582 - Comments: 0Safety Manager of DoveLewis, Coby Richter, DVM, DACVS, discusses a few disaster preparedness precautions that we take as a 24-hour facility.
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Hemocytometer White Blood Cell Count
Views: 5,794 - Comments: 0Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS(ECC), demonstrates how to perform a manual white blood cell count using a hemocytometer. This procedure is infrequently used due to the technology available to many hospitals, but is a good skill to have i...
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Is There a Cure for When You’re a Workaholic?
Views: 3,815 - Comments: 6Is there a cure when you’re a workaholic? I am a workaholic. I come from a long line of focused, hardworking people who lived their lives with determined energy. And honestly, for many of my ancestors before me, this drive was...
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Respiratory Distress: Emergency Treatment
Views: 22,613 - Comments: 4When faced with a patient in respiratory distress or arrest, the timing of patient assessment and intervention is critical. First one must determine if the patient is in respiratory arrest, regardless of the underlying cause....
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Never Stop Learning
Views: 5,345 - Comments: 8This is a mantra here at atdove.org. It’s one of the main reasons for the development of this website and why I have spent the last 5 years working to create the videos and articles found here – because I believe so strongly that...
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Removing a Needle from a Cat’s Soft Palate
Views: 6,720 - Comments: 1Ladan Mohammad-Zadeh, DVM, DACVECC, shows radiographs of a cat with a sewing needle lodged in her tongue and soft palate, and then demonstrates her strategy for removing the needle safely.
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Spring Weather Preparedness
Views: 4,466 - Comments: 1Spring Has Sprung! Watch Out for Wild Weather! Tornadoes, lightning, floods, rip currents and early season heat - spring dangers rampage across the United States throughout March, April and May. And there’s one hazard tha...
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Getting Started with Dental Charting
Views: 11,725 - Comments: 4Becky Smith, CVT, VTS (Clinical Practice), of Rose City Veterinary Hospital discusses the importance of dental charting, how to get started with dental charting in your practice, and the different abnormalities to chart in canine...
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Client Call Backs
Views: 6,125 - Comments: 4Joanie Abrams, CVT, VTS(ECC), discusses how client call backs are performed at the hospital and our philosophy for follow up in the ER.
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How We Keep Our Dogs From Barking
Views: 6,942 - Comments: 5We’ve been doing yoga, coloring sheets, having healthy snacks, and taking extra time for ourselves because it’s self-care month at DoveLewis. But there’s one topic that’s got us all talking: our shoes! So w...
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My Fear of Wellness Month
Views: 3,356 - Comments: 7Let’s start with the basics: I’m new to my employer and have been with the company for 90 days. I’ve been put in charge of spearheading Wellness and Self Care Month for our 115 employees. Now the complicated factors: I do not c...
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Fractured Canine Root Canal
Views: 4,851 - Comments: 1VCA Raleigh Hills Dental Center’s Rebecca Martin, DVM, performs a root canal on a fractured canine. The process of performing a root canal is covered as well as reasoning behind each decision made along the way.
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Are You Taking Dental Radiographs?
Views: 4,130 - Comments: 1It’s dental month so let’s talk about a touchy subject. Dental radiographs, YES, you need to be taking them. Dentistry is kind of the red headed stepchild in veterinary medicine; it gets less attention and is kind of an afte...
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Hemoabdomen in the ICU
Views: 7,417 - Comments: 7Ladan Mohammad-Zadeh, DVM, DACVECC, discusses the medical treatments of a dog that presented to the ER with an acute hemoabdomen. Stabilization prior to surgery, anesthesia, and post-operative stabilization are all covered.
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But I Swear She’s Sick!
Views: 4,898 - Comments: 8The rumors are true. In a momentary (that seems to have lasted a few weeks) lapse of judgement I made and followed through on the decision to add a puppy to my life. Losing Phoebe so quickly and without warning was quite shocking...
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ETCO2: What Every Technician Should Know
Views: 20,256 - Comments: 29Chantal Faraudo, CVT, CVPP, provides a practical overview to using end-tidal CO2 monitoring in practice. She covers different types of equipment, what ETCO2 is telling us, how to troubleshoot problems with our patients, and why th...
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Albuterol Administration
Views: 6,773 - Comments: 2Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS(ECC), demonstrates how to administer inhaled medication (in this case, albuterol) to a cat that has been diagnosed with asthma.
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Root Canal Discussion
Views: 3,678 - Comments: 0Rebecca Martin, DVM, from VCA Dental Center Raleigh Hills discusses a case about a dog presenting with a fractured canine tooth. Dr. Martin shows and talks through the radiographs of this tooth and describes her thought process fo...
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Skin Cytology
Views: 8,955 - Comments: 3Veterinary Dermatologist, Jon Plant, DVM, DACVD, of SkinVet in Portland demonstrates multiple methods of obtaining samples for skin cytology looking for bacterial contamination of the skin.
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In Memory Of…
Views: 3,169 - Comments: 13I’ve been a technician working in emergency medicine for a long time. I have worked on some amazing patients and seen diseases and traumas and broken animals gleefully skip out the front door; proud of my team and our success. I h...
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Wellness Program
Views: 4,975 - Comments: 1DoveLewis Wellness Program coordinators Enid Traisman, CT, MSW, and Josey Kinnaman, CVT, discuss the staff benefits of a coordinated hospital wellness program and the steps DoveLewis has taken to improve the wellness options for e...
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Veterinary View of the Holidays
Views: 4,119 - Comments: 1The memes have started: pancreatitis- turkey bone- foreign body removal- chocolate toxicity. It’s how we know the holiday season is upon us. Of course these memes are funny, because they are true. During the holidays, we see an in...
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Tiny Talk - ETCO2 in Anesthesia
Views: 12,992 - Comments: 7In this Tiny Talk, Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), discusses end tidal CO2 and why it is important to monitor in anesthetized patients. Understanding what that value means to the patient and tips for keeping it within the normal r...
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Feline Bladder Palpation
Views: 12,386 - Comments: 0Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), demonstrates how to palpate a bladder in cats. This skill is useful for potential urinary obstructions as well as prior to cystocentesis.
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Art Therapy
Views: 4,471 - Comments: 0Enid Traisman, CT, MSW, discusses the benefits of art therapy to veterinary staff, and describes how DoveLewis has instituted art therapy for employees.
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Clotting Times
Views: 7,943 - Comments: 3Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), demonstrates how to obtain blood to perform a PT and aPTT bedside clotting tests in a dog.
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GDV: The Surgeon’s Perspective
Views: 6,033 - Comments: 0Ashley Magee, DVM, DACVS, covers gastric dilatation-volvulus from presentation to post-operative recovery. The majority of her talk focuses on the surgical correction of GDV including splenectomy, gastrectomy, and detailed instruc...
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Tiny Talk – GDV The First 15 Minutes
Views: 9,806 - Comments: 3Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), talks about gastric dilatation volvulus and how to approach these patients in the first few minutes of their arrival at the hospital. Shock, perfusion, pain management, and basic diagnostics are cov...
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Present Tense
Views: 3,613 - Comments: 10It’s a quiz on Facebook. It’s a plot point in every time travel movie. The thought of it might keep you awake at night. Do you want to know the day that you’ll die? Do you want to plan? Have time to travel? Spend all of your money...
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Burette Use
Views: 12,436 - Comments: 10Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS (ECC), discusses the advantages of using a burette in the ICU and how to add medications to a burette for patient administration.
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Cleaning Exam Rooms
Views: 14,335 - Comments: 6DoveLewis technician assistant, Amy Lacey, describes the procedure for cleaning an exam room before the next patient arrives.
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Are You Being Utilized?
Views: 3,776 - Comments: 6I love giving lectures at veterinary conferences. Love it. I get the opportunity to talk about what I love, to share my passion with equally nerdy technicians, and I get to hear about medicine and cases in different hospitals arou...
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Anesthesia in Brachycephalics
Views: 11,494 - Comments: 3Kristin Spring, CVT, VTS (ECC, Anes.), discusses the special considerations for anesthesia in brachycephalic breeds. Differences in pre-operative and post-operative monitoring are covered.
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Vaccines: Why Are We Vaccinating
Views: 14,006 - Comments: 2Becky Smith, CVT, VTS(Clinical Practice), from Rose City Veterinary Hospital, discusses the herd health immunity importance behind vaccines for dogs and cats. AAHA and AAFP core and non-core vaccines and the diseases they protect...
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Activated Clotting Time
Views: 8,659 - Comments: 6Megan Brashear, CVT, VTS(ECC), demonstrates how to perform an activated clotting time test. With the current backorder of in-house PT/aPTT tests, veterinary staff may be called on to perform this test more frequently.
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The Declaw Debate
Views: 8,030 - Comments: 3The Oregon state legislature is voting this week on a bill that would almost outlaw declawing cats and debarking dogs. The reason I say almost is that there are a few exceptions to this bill. Declawing a cat would be allowed...
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